(born 1955). U.S. politician and ordained minister Mike Huckabee served as governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007. Not nationally recognized as a political heavyweight, Huckabee ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008 as somewhat of a dark-horse candidate.

Michael Dale Huckabee was born on Aug. 24, 1955, in Hope, Ark. The first male member of his family to finish high school, Huckabee

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